If it is specific stuff that will require you or the tenant to do something besides watering once a week, 1 every 2 weeks (depends on your climate) Note: will take a lot more watering when first installed. 

How do any of you in the cold climates handle this?  

Now is the era of the foreclosure investor and it behooves the foreclosure investor to minimize overhead as much as possible to acquire as many units in this climate as possible.

Not to mention, in hurricane climates and seismic, container structure provide extremely additional structural support compared to conventional stick build.

In colder climates, water left in exterior pipes can freeze and cause pipes to burst.

Especially consider your colder climate, tile will be much colder/less pleasing to the feet than the plank. 

v=m5z6GDuGtCEOur HVAC systems run for more days/months per year than normal so they wear out faster than cooler/dryer climates. 

Combined with the low interest rates, COVID changing the dynamic of work from home, and the shift in economic and political climates in certain high-population states, it became the perfect storm for a mass migration within the U.S.As of the date of this post we are now at 20,017 residential listings valley wide.

Also, many are in rough climates.

If there are no easy ways to climate control the converted sections from the central unit, it wouldn't have been difficult to have gone with a window unit for AC and wall mounted space heater.